Wednesday's letters: Be informed

Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 8:02 p.m.

To the editor: I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty tired of all this election rhetoric! For example, the idea that women will suddenly develop a herd mentality and all vote for Barack Obama is an insult to our intelligence.

I’m sure some women will vote for Obama because they agree with his “all-inclusive” abortion policy: Any woman, any baby, any age should have free access to abortion. But many women are offended by that policy and will vote for Mitt Romney.

Some women will vote for Obama because his party has stated in the platform that it supports homosexual marriage. Many will vote against Obama for that very reason.

Anyone who voted for the marriage amendment in May could very well vote against Obama and protect marriage again.

My respectful petition to everyone is to be an informed voter. Please seek out nonpartisan voter guides to help you decide. An excellent source can be found at www.ncfpc.org/pdffiles/VoterGuide2012GeneralElection.pdf.

This extensive guide is nonpartisan and may be distributed in public places as well as churches. Ask your pastor to provide this guide to his congregation. It’s free!

Help get the informed vote out! Your future depends on it.

Merry Guy

Hendersonville

Shame on you

To the editor: Henderson County must be the safest place in America to live. Believe it or not, an “alleged” misdemeanor assault actually made the front page of the Times-News, right under the Israeli prime minister hinting of an all-out war with Iran.

Really? If this is the extent of a major crime in Hendersonville, may I suggest cutting the law enforcement budget by, say, 90 percent? That way the sheriff and the police departments, not to mention the detectives, would be forced to pick up their children from school and grocery shop using their own personal vehicles.

Attempting to embarrass a 17-year-old teenager (who has been accused — not convicted) by plastering his picture on the front page of a newspaper is beyond belief. Shame on the Times-News and local media for this sort of unprofessional behavior.

Jonathan Randolph

Laurel Park

Don’t forget this

To the editor: In 2001, 2002 and 2003, then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama voted against the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, a bill stating that a baby born alive after a botched abortion is to be saved by doctors. He instead voted against it three times “to protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion.”

Not only is Obama OK with killing a baby from conception to late term, where they suffer untold pain while being aborted, he is OK with killing them after they were born alive.

In Illinois, these babies were thrown into biohazard waste left to suffer and die agonizing deaths alone.

The bill didn’t pass until 2005, after Obama was in the U.S. Senate.

If you want to forget his ineptitude with the economy, you cannot forget this.

Barbara Hughes

Hendersonville

He’s a ‘lemon’

To the editor: In Susan Lane’s column “Presidential process has truly changed” (Oct. 1 edition), she makes some very good points, not the least of which is this quote (in part) “Shall … we elect a president to lead the entire nation, all of us, through this critical time in its history?”

Who to for vote is obvious from what she said because one of the presidential candidates has already had the chance to lead our nation, and he failed. If the same held true for an automobile you bought that turned out to be a “lemon,” would you buy that same automobile again? I doubt it, so why vote for a candidate who you already know is a “lemon”?

<p>To the editor: I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty tired of all this election rhetoric! For example, the idea that women will suddenly develop a herd mentality and all vote for Barack Obama is an insult to our intelligence.</p><p>I’m sure some women will vote for Obama because they agree with his all-inclusive abortion policy: Any woman, any baby, any age should have free access to abortion. But many women are offended by that policy and will vote for Mitt Romney.</p><p>Some women will vote for Obama because his party has stated in the platform that it supports homosexual marriage. Many will vote against Obama for that very reason.</p><p>Anyone who voted for the marriage amendment in May could very well vote against Obama and protect marriage again.</p><p>My respectful petition to everyone is to be an informed voter. Please seek out nonpartisan voter guides to help you decide. An excellent source can be found at www.ncfpc.org/pdffiles/VoterGuide2012GeneralElection.pdf.</p><p>This extensive guide is nonpartisan and may be distributed in public places as well as churches. Ask your pastor to provide this guide to his congregation. It’s free!</p><p>Help get the informed vote out! Your future depends on it.</p><p><em>Merry Guy</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p><h3>Shame on you</h3>
<p>To the editor: Henderson County must be the safest place in America to live. Believe it or not, an alleged misdemeanor assault actually made the front page of the Times-News, right under the Israeli prime minister hinting of an all-out war with Iran.</p><p>Really? If this is the extent of a major crime in Hendersonville, may I suggest cutting the law enforcement budget by, say, 90 percent? That way the sheriff and the police departments, not to mention the detectives, would be forced to pick up their children from school and grocery shop using their own personal vehicles.</p><p>Attempting to embarrass a 17-year-old teenager (who has been accused  not convicted) by plastering his picture on the front page of a newspaper is beyond belief. Shame on the Times-News and local media for this sort of unprofessional behavior.</p><p><em>Jonathan Randolph</em></p><p><em>Laurel Park</em></p><h3>Don’t forget this</h3>
<p>To the editor: In 2001, 2002 and 2003, then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama voted against the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, a bill stating that a baby born alive after a botched abortion is to be saved by doctors. He instead voted against it three times to protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion.</p><p>Not only is Obama OK with killing a baby from conception to late term, where they suffer untold pain while being aborted, he is OK with killing them after they were born alive.</p><p>In Illinois, these babies were thrown into biohazard waste left to suffer and die agonizing deaths alone.</p><p>The bill didn’t pass until 2005, after Obama was in the U.S. Senate.</p><p>If you want to forget his ineptitude with the economy, you cannot forget this.</p><p><em>Barbara Hughes</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p><h3>He’s a lemon’</h3>
<p>To the editor: In Susan Lane’s column Presidential process has truly changed (Oct. 1 edition), she makes some very good points, not the least of which is this quote (in part) Shall we elect a president to lead the entire nation, all of us, through this critical time in its history?</p><p>Who to for vote is obvious from what she said because one of the presidential candidates has already had the chance to lead our nation, and he failed. If the same held true for an automobile you bought that turned out to be a lemon, would you buy that same automobile again? I doubt it, so why vote for a candidate who you already know is a lemon?</p><p><em>Bill Burnette</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p>